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Alex Woodie
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Managing Editor, BigDATAwire
Senior Editor, IT Jungle
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My latest at BigDATAwire: Top 10 #bigdata technologies to watch in 2H25 www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/21/t... #bigdata #tech #watching
Top 10 Big Data Technologies to Watch in the Second Half of 2025
With the tech industry currently in the midst of its mid-summer lull, now it’s the perfect time to take stock of where we’ve come this year and
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July 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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One of These Is Not Like the Other
Perusing some recent AI headlines, HPCwire noticed the following four newsworthy items. AWS, Microsoft Slow Down Data Center Deployments according to a Wells Fargo research as reported by several webs...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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As one who has written words their whole career, I salute this song

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If I don’t know what a word means I look it up #chatgpt #google
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April 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Will the Wizard of Oz at Sphere remake be the start of a new cinematic genre or an interesting one-off?
There’s No Place Like Vegas for Dorothy, Google
When Dorothy Gale was picked up by a twister from her family’s Kansas farm 86 years ago, she was taken to a magical place called Oz. It turns out,
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April 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Reporter’s Notebook: AI Hype and Glory at Nvidia GTC 2025

The show is now over, leaving us nothing but the memories.
Reporter’s Notebook: AI Hype and Glory at Nvidia GTC 2025
Today marks the end of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, a weeklong event in San Jose, California that be remembered for a long time, if not
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March 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Can You Afford to Run Agentic AI in the Cloud?

Yes or no answers, only please...
Can You Afford to Run Agentic AI in the Cloud?
The emergence of agentic AI is putting fresh pressure on the infrastructure layer. If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is correct in his assumptions, demand for
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March 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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My latest for BigDATAwire: Agentic AI, powered by reasoning models, poised to drive inference workloads by 100x, necessitating new approach to data center design, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says.

There. Now you don't even have to read the story. (Just kidding -- you must read this story. Ha!)
Nvidia Preps for 100x Surge in Inference Workloads, Thanks to Reasoning AI Agents
The emergence of agentic AI powered by reasoning models will have a transformative effect on the computer industry, not just on how we write and run
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March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Image is actually to scale #GTC25
March 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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VAST Data bolsters data platform with new triggers, vector, and fine-grained access control to chase #RAG AI apps www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/12/v... @vastdata.bsky.social #GenAI
VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases
VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it
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March 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Bye-bye, dashboards. Hello, LLM-driven SQL analysis #GenAI #bigdata @firebolthq.bsky.social
Data Warehousing for the (AI) Win
Has the data warehouse lost its luster? Have dashboards fallen out of fashion? They have and they are, according to Eldad Farkash, the CEO and co-founder
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March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Your Next Big Job in Tech: AI Engineer www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/06/y...
Your Next Big Job in Tech: AI Engineer
The AI revolution is shaking up the tech world in ways both big and small. In addition to rewiring the data stack, AI is also changing the jobs that
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March 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Gartner gave some advice on D&A at the Data & Analytics Summit 2025. www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/05/g...
Gartner Giveth Guidance on Data & Analytics, And We Taketh
Gartner arguably is the most respected IT analyst firm on the planet, so when its analysts and VPs share what they’re thinking, as they did during the
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March 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#HPC, #AI, and #quantumcomputong professionals and future-professionals, join us for a free in-person event in Austin on March 11 for the latest updates on Google's HPC, AI, and QC efforts! sites.google.com/view/advance...
February 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Q: Who is Dataminr?
A: An AI firm that uses multi-modal fusion on a real-time pipeline of 1M+ data sources (43TB per day) to generate actionable intelligence about real-world events for its subscribers, including DoD, 1,500 news orgs, and 2/3s of the Fortune 50
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The AI Firm Turning 1M Real-Time Data Sources Into Actionable Intelligence
Keeping up with events in today’s highly connected world is no easy task. From breaking news and extreme weather to the latest TikTok craze and zero-day
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February 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The average company spends $1.95 million on #observability data, per IDC.

#Sawmills says it can cut that spending by 50% to 80%. #bigdata #events #logs #traces
How Sawmills Plans to Cut Big Observability Data Down to Size
Observability data is supposed to help companies identify and solve IT issues, but the data has grown so large and complex that it’s become a problem in
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February 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Krishna Subramanian, Komprise Co-Founder, Stops By the Big Data Debrief www.bigdatawire.com/2025/02/24/k...
Krishna Subramanian, Komprise Co-Founder, Stops By the Big Data Debrief
Unstructured data--including pictures, videos, audio, sensor data, text, and HTML pages--accounts for upwards of 90% of the data generated today, and its
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February 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Large vision models (LVMs) based on the Transformer Architecture are here -- and they're doing quite well, thank you... #computervision #BigDATAwire #SymphonyAI
When Will Large Vision Models Have Their ChatGPT Moment?
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a watershed moment in natural language processing (NLP), as it showcased the startling effectiveness of the
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February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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What is #ApacheFlink and why should you care?

Watch my video interview of #Ververica CEO Alex Walden to learn more about Flink and its growing role in stream data processing.

#BigDATADebrief #BigDATAwire
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Ververica CEO Alex Walden Joins the Big Data Debrief
Ververica CEO Alex Walden knows a thing or two about streaming data. As the head of the leading commercial outfit behind Apache Flink, Walden has a
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February 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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My first Bluesky post is about my latest #BigDATAwire story, which is about Basecamp Research's massive #Neo4j graph database used for drug discovery www.bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...
Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery
Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of proteins and enzymes that have evolved
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February 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM